Career Resilience Is Needed More Than Ever Before

I am honoured to have been interviewed for CBC Waterloo’s Morning Edition by Craig Norris

CBC Morning Edition - Craig Norris' Interview with Wayne Greenway

Before Christmas, I noticed that across clients and friends. and family that many people seemed different than before covid – less happy and edgier.

So I asked about 50 people if they felt different

A small percentage said that they did not notice any difference but the others said that they were more fed up with their job than before COVID, tired of ongoing uncertainty, angry at things that never used to bother them, more isolated  etc

Statistics Canada recently confirmed the result of my ad hoc survey. They reported that

More Canadians are reporting fair or poor mental health 

Fewer than 6 in 10 Canadians report a strong feeling of meaning or purpose. 

Also of interest that during 2022, hate-motivated crimes reported by police increased by 27% to 3,360 incidents.

The TELUS Health's Mental Health Index (January 2023) also found similar results 

32% of Canadians have a high mental health risk, 

43% have a moderate mental health risk, and 25% have a low mental health risk 

One-third of Canadians avoid being with or interacting with others and this behaviour largely started or worsened since the pandemic

This is why I think that developing the mental strengths needed to become resilient is going to be more important than ever before.

Psychological Resilience is the ability to bounce back in adverse situations (and often flourish in the face of them)

Going forward over the coming decade, the workplace changes we have experienced during COVID will pale in comparison to the change we will experience over the next decade 

By 2030, the growth of AI will create more change than we have seen in decades   Mc Kinsey suggests that currently “60 per cent of occupations have at least 30 per cent of constituent work activities that could be automated.”

Resilience gives employees the mental strength to bounce back and move forward aligned with the required changes. This skill will be essential if companies are to remain productive and profitable and as retention of employees continues to be important

The Stay Strong & Flourish Journey

Improve Your Mental Strength, Resilience, and Well-Being

Are you ready to take control of your mental strength, resilience, and well-being? 

Join me on this transformative journey as we discover the scientific underpinnings and practical benefits of activities that help people thrive in challenging times.

I look forward to sharing over 30 years of experience building programs that help individuals and families stay strong through some of life's toughest challenges (including life-threatening childhood diseases, military life, and neurodegenerative disease.

Currently, I am exploring the science behind the newer approaches to building resilience, mental strength, and well-being.

Each week, I will guide you through a new activity that has been proven to increase mental strength, resilience, and well-being. We'll try it out together in our session, practice it during the week, and share our feedback on it.

I'll also share my insights on the science behind each activity and we will jointly discuss how it can be applied to getting more out of life and thriving in the face of changes that happen in our lives including the workplace.

Together, we'll create notes on each activity, the science behind it, and its potential usefulness.

Don't miss this opportunity to take charge of your well-being to thrive in any situation.

How to apply:

If you're interested in joining the Stay Strong & Flourish Journey, please send an email to:

wayne.greenway@careeraviators.com

Describe your background, why you would like to be part of this exciting program, and how you would add value to our journey together. 

Registration is limited! I will reach out to schedule a conversation with you about your candidacy for the program.

When: 

Weekly on Tuesdays at 12 noon ET-1:00 PM ET

Fees:

To make the program as accessible as possible while also fostering commitment, fees are as follows:

5 sessions: $48.00

10 sessions: $78.00

Career Landing Programme Launches For 2023

Career Landing Programme Description

Career Landing Programme Level 1: Foundation Building For Job Search Success. 

Through this 9-day interactive course you will:

• Discern who you are and who you want to be in this new job

• Create a powerful new master version of your resume - ready for customization 

• Craft a persuasive LinkedIn profile tailored to your job search 

• Create a career statement designed to direct every step of your search

Time: 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM ET  class instruction (with 2 hours of homework each night)

Registration Information: To have a free consultation and learn more about the Career Landing Programme, please click the link to choose a time that works for you! http://calendly.com/wayne-greenway/careeraviators

• Registration is limited to 6 participants 

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Career Landing Programme Level 2: Search Strategy and Tactics

Through this 9-day interactive course you will:

• Learn how to authentically network to clearly define your next role and undercover jobs before they are posted 

• Build a list of 15  key networking contacts to pursue 

• Create a strategy and timeline for conducting your search in Level 3

• Design and structure the conversations that will help your search  

• Learn our application customization methodology that gets interviews

• Learn how to prepare for screening and selection Interviews

Time: 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM ET  class instruction (with 2 hours of homework each night)

Date: Starts one week after Level 2 Ends

Registration Information: 

Prerequisite: Successful completion of Career Landing Programme Level 1

• Registration is limited to 10 participants 

• You will be given application instructions at the end of Level 1

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Career Landing Programme Level 3: Job Search Execution 

10 weeks of weekly team consultation you will:

• Go after jobs in which you will excel, value highly, and love to do 

• Sustain the mindset and focus required for a successful search

• Get timely on-the-spot advice on the execution of what you learned in Levels1 & 2

• Be guided in finding multiple offers

• Keep motivated and on track to finding the right job

• Grow in the face of failures: Set new possibilities through networking and dialogue with the team

• Practice with team members and get professional guidance to gain the  confidence needed for networking and interviews

Registration Information 

Date: Starts one week after Level 2 Ends

Prerequisite: Successful completion of Job Search 2

You will be given application instructions at the end of level 2 

And Every Four Months…… Join The Celebration!

Celebrating successes is very important in fostering professional growth. We will invite you back after all your team members have landed their new positions to share what you learned in your job search with new participants and jointly celebrate your success.

Who Should Apply?

You are: 

• A mid to late-stage career executive, professional, or manager who is planning a career transition or is currently in a job search.  

• Serious about transitioning and committed to rapidly launching a successful job search.

• Ready for the hard work to achieve your goals.

• Eager to embark on a course that will challenge you beyond what you may have experienced in the past.  

• Intent on getting multiple offers for jobs in which you will excel, value highly and love to do -- A job that will bring you a sense of purpose in life. 

• An active participant in all learning activities. 

Fees

385.00 per level.

Want More Information

To have a free consultation and learn more about the Career Landing Programme, please click the link to choose a time that works for you! http://calendly.com/wayne-greenway/careeraviators

It's A Christmas Celebration! Come Celebrate The Holidays With Career Aviators

Career Aviators is giving to help job seekers at Christmas 

I understand how financially stretched professionals can be during the months it takes to find a new position, 

While I have a small practice, I wanted to do something to help out as a way to celebrate Christmas. 

I can’t do it for long because my rates are already modest and this is how I make my living but here is what I have come up with. 

It is time limited and I doubt I can afford to extend it so take advantage of the savings while this offer is on the table! 

What is the offer

Component 1 Self Discovery (Regular Price 385.00)

Define who you are and who you want to be in your next job; the strengths you want to bring to something that deeply matters to you and that you are naturally drawn to. I will help you express this in a strong Career Statement to guide all stages of your career transition and job search

Component 2 Resume and Linkedin Reboot (Regular Price 385.00)

You will create a new powerful master resume and LinkedIn Profile that will get you invited to Interviews for your carefully targeted role

Our Chrismas Special Price:  Both Components For $385.00!

Participants must fully register before December 24, 2022, to receive this special. The sessions will start the week of January 2, 2023.

To register, use the link below to book a free career consultation with Wayne Greenway to learn more about the two components and further  registration information http://calendly.com/wayne-greenway/careeraviators

Do you feel like you are languishing in your job or career?

“Languishing is a sense of stagnation and emptiness. It feels as if you’re muddling through your days, looking at your life through a foggy windshield” says Adam Grant in an excellent article in a New York Times article

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/19/well/mind/covid-mental-health-languishing.html?smid=url-share

Grant explains that As COVID19 has dragged on,” the acute state of anguish [from early on in COVID) has given way to a chronic condition of languish”.

I see some of my clients languishing but sometimes it was there before COVID. At some point, the job did not “light the person up” anymore. Perhaps they outgrew the job or the job outgrew them and Covid 19 did not help. Sometimes they are not sure why they feel the way they do and as Grant describes, they are not depressed but they feel the “absence of well-being”.

Grant continues to say that “languishing dulls your motivation, disrupts your ability to focus, and triples the odds that you’ll cut back on work.”

Clients who find themselves suddenly out of work sometime have a hard time knowing in what direction to take their career. I think it’s compounded in those who have been bullied on the job (30%) but they may not be depressed – it’s more like they are languishing.

To successfully advance in one’s career, or get multiple offers from a job requires a flourishing state of mental health or a high sense of well-being.

Grant describes the antidote for languishing as being:

1. Creating opportunities to experience “flow”. “Flow is that elusive state of absorption in a meaningful challenge or a momentary bond, where your sense of time, place and self melts away.”

2. Giving yourself periods of uninterrupted time so that you can be in “flow”

3. Carving out daily time to focus on a challenge that matters to you and that stretches your skills and heightens your resolve” but is still achievable.

In our next Career Resilience Zoom-In, we will come to understand the building blocks of career well-being/happiness. We will explore these and other ways to get out from languishing and talk about ways to increase one’s capacity to set aim for the next steps in their career

For Registration and information: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/472601583057

Career Resilience Zoom-Ins are free weekly workshops to advance your career or successfully manage a job search and career transition.

They are provided by a team of career, human resources, executive coaching and communications professionals, who volunteer their time because of their commitment to building the career resilience of professionals

Want to Be A Career Management Consultant?

Career Aviators Career Management Consultancy Opportunity

Would you like to learn how to help clients find careers in which they excel, value highly and love to do? Are you ready to open and operate your own career management firm with minimal risk?

Would you like to become part of a mutually supportive network that helps clients to flourish in their careers and lives?.

Career Aviators is selecting individuals across Canada for training and co-consultation to become Career Aviators Career Management Consultants.

This opportunity will give you more than 100 hours of training, co-consultation and the ongoing weekly team support you need to enable you to grow your own career management firm or add career coaching/management to your services (if you are already a coach or consultant).

About Career Aviators

Career Aviators is Canada's only Career Management firm that operates as a social purpose business. The profits from our work support programs help vulnerable youth flourish in the face of highly stressful life situations.

Career Aviators helps professionals, managers, and executives find positions in which they will excel, value highly, and love to do. We are proud of our 93% success rate. We are

For our corporate clients, we offer a cost-effective approach to our outplacement support that safeguards the company brand and strengthens productivity.

We see clients on a weekly basis from the initiation of service until they are employed in a job that fits.

How Does This Idea Work?

Benefits

Comprehensive training in the Career Aviators methodology (100 hours) and ongoing support (Total value: more than $30,000.)

• Supervised practice: Co-consultation with your clients until we mutually agree that you are ready for solo practice

Certification as a Career Aviators Career Management Consultant

Be Part Of A World Class Team

• Ongoing weekly professional development and sharing of triumphs and challenges

Minimal Start-Up Costs

• Use of The Career Aviators brand to grow your business

• Full description of your business on our website

• Unlimited access to Career Aviators materials, forms etc

Collaborative Business Planning And Learning As We Grow And Adapt To Change

Make a Good Living

o   Projected income: In year 1 you could anticipate $20,000.00 and with hard work and excellent marketing increasing to $100,000.00 by year 5

Your Responsibilities

Before You Start Your Training:

• Research any licensing issues in your community or province and get your your business license

• Find 3 Beta clients

• Set up a sole proprietorship for a career management consultancy

Successfully complete the full training (100 hours of training and supervised practice)*

Fully participate in weekly professional development

Prepare your Career Aviators page in French and English with our assistance

Find more clients during training and going forward

Keep 75% of your earnings. 25% is directed to Career Aviators (5% is directed to administration and marketing to grow business for the team across the country).

Agree to maintain the integrity of the Career Aviators methodology and brand for 5 years

Bring another business or coaching strength to the benefit of our Canada-wide team

Qualifications

Required

• ·        If you are In Quebec, you must be bilingual (with excellent communication skills in French (written and oral)

• ·         Empowerment oriented with a demonstrated ability to help others flourish

• ·         Curious, life-long learner with a keen interest in professional development

• ·         Experienced in counselling, coaching or related work

• ·         Solution focused, sound judgement with a good sense of humour and flexible in attitude

• ·         Committed to  helping clients from initial contact until they have successfully transition

• ·         Bachelors degree in a relevant program and proven success in a related line of work or equivalent

• ·         Proven experience in networking with a strong network of helpful contacts

• ·         High degree of resilience and determination to make the business successful

Assets

• ·         Proven experience in sales, marketing and communications is highly desirable

• ·         Graduate studies in management, counselling or other related programs

• ·         Professional qualification in social work, psychology  coaching  or career development

• ·         Previous success in helping others with resumes, job search and career transitions

If you are interested in discussing this exciting opportunity, please contact:

Wayne Greenway,

Chief Executive Officer, Career Aviators

LinkedIn: ca.linkedin.com/in/wgreenway

E: wayne.greenway@careeraviators.com

P: 226 501 5667

Thursday Triumphs

Kevin has owned his own travel agency for 10 years, COVID took its toll on the business but he managed to get through the 18 month pandemic without losing money. Sadly, there was no profit.

Even though he loves travel and enjoys working with his clients, he closed the business exhausted from working a minimum of 14 hours a day and not really making any real financial headway.

Fortunately his wife has a good job which has supported his family with a modest but happy lifestyle.

He has his destination in mind and we did a lot of work rebooting
his master resume.

His current functional resume has not garnered any interviews.

As described in a recent helpful article by Robert Half, a functional resume “leads with a list of skills and specific experience, followed by education and work history sections”

https://lnkd.in/e6FCYeC

As the article suggests, advocates of a functional resume say that it's a wise format for people with gaps in their work history or operating their own business like Kevin.

Kevin and I worked through our Resume Analyzer and we talked about his self evaluation compared to my evaluation. By the end of the conversation, he realized that he has an enormous number of successes in establishing his own business that fit with his new destination.

He also realized that he has less than 40 seconds to show the pattern of successes he has had in his career that tie to qualifications in the job description. His functional resume was not doing this.

We shifted his resume into a powerful chronological format which, as the article suggests, “is generally preferred by most hiring managers.”

Kevin recently landed a new job supervising a small team in an experiential travel business,.

#resume #careertransition, #careeradvice

Tuesday Take Off

Before you think about the robots, one of the most important steps in developing an effective resume is to create a Master Resume that always stays in the cloud or on your computer.

In the master resume, list every significant accomplishment you achieved ( that you can think of) in the right format, under each job. You could have as many bullets as you want under each job in the Master.

When you customize your resume for a job application, you will be mostly deleting bullets that do not match with the qualifications and the principle duties in the job description and editing the remaining bullets to match the language of the qualifications.

Having a master resume cuts the time it takes you to customize by about 50%.

Customizing is tedious but the more you do it, the less tedious it becomes, if you are applying to similar roles.

One tip to get both the robots and the humans to put you in the “Yes'' list for interviews is to specifically match your successes, under each job to each of the qualifications and the most important principle duties.

And...be sure to use their wording (key words) to explain each of your successes. This way you won’t be stuffing the resume with keywords inappropriately and yet your fit will be noticed quickly by a human and the ATS.

There are 14 other criteria in the Career Aviators Resume Analyzer that you can use to determine how you need to make changes to your resume to get in the “yes” list for interviews.

I would be pleased to review your resume with you in a free consultation and/or you could participate in the resume reboot workshop or the Career Landing Programme